Oulun Luistinseura

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Oulun Luistinseura (or OLS) is a Finnish multi-sports club, based in Oulu. The club has football, bandy, bowling and floorball sections. In men's football it currently plays in the Kakkonen (the third highest division). The club's manager is Tomi Molin, and it plays its home matches at Castren.

[edit] Bandy

OLS is one of the most successful clubs in Finland and are the only non-Swedish or Russian/Soviet club to have won the Bandy World Cup having won the title in 1976. OLS have won the Bandyliiga 13 times the first was in 1970 and the most recent title was in 2003.

OLS won the Finnish championship in the following years: 1970, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 2001, 2003, 2008

[edit] Notable players

• Juho Mäkelä
• Antti Niemi
• Mika Nurmela